Words and Silences

List of Maps and Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Bible Citations
PART I: REINDEER NOMADS AND REFORMERS
Introduction
1. Dynamics of Avoidance and Engagement
PART II: CONVERSION OF PEOPLE, DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF SPIRITS
2. Trajectories of Conversion
3. Baptist Missionaries on the Edge
4. Destructive Persuasion
PART III: SPEAKING AND SILENCE
5. Silence and Binding Words
6. Speaking Saves, Silence Damns
7. Pure Subjects
Conclusion
Main Characters
Glossary of Selected Nenets and Russian Words
Notes
References
Index

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• Religiões tribais
• Antropologia social e cultural
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religious conversion; animism; shamanism; Christian missionaries; Russian Arctic; atheism; Samoyed; cosmology; Baptist; Pentecostal; Stalinism; speech and silence